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Nomads in Archaeology
Tony Wilkinson,Roger Cribb +1 more
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This article is published in American Journal of Archaeology.The article was published on 1993-01-01. It has received 248 citations till now.read more
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Early African Pastoralism: View from Dakhleh Oasis (South Central Egypt)
TL;DR: The late prehistoric archaeological sequence from Dakhleh Oasis, South Central Egypt, is examined for evidence on the origins and development of pastoralism in northeastern Africa, under the dry but fluctuating environmental conditions of the early to mid-Holocene as mentioned in this paper.
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The early Holocene Milankovitch thermal maximum and humans: adverse conditions for the Denali complex of eastern Beringia
TL;DR: Edwards et al. as discussed by the authors showed that the earliest Denali occupation dates to >2000-yr. BP and co-occur with weakly developed forest soil horizons that reflect stabilized surfaces later capped by loess.
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Life on the Watershed. Reconstructing Subsistence in a Steppe Region Using Archaeological Survey: A Diachronic Perspective on Habitation in the Jordan Valley
TL;DR: In this paper, the Zerqa Triangle, a region in the middle Jordan Valley around Tell Deir ‘All? (Jordan), was investigated by means of a detailed pedestrian archaeological survey.
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Was there really a Neolithic in Norway
TL;DR: For temperate Europe, the transition to the Neolithic is still defined by a shift from a hunter-gatherer to a farming economy and archaeologically recognized by its characteristic artefacts of pottery and polished-stone axes as discussed by the authors.
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Linking agriculture and exchange to social developments of the Central Asian Iron Age
Robert N. Spengler,Robert N. Spengler,Naomi F. Miller,Naomi F. Miller,Reinder Neef,Perry A. Tourtellotte,Claudia Chang,Claudia Chang +7 more
TL;DR: The first millennium B.C. is often interpreted as a transition toward specialized pastoralism in Central Asia, and the point in time when the Central Asian nomads or Scythians appear as mentioned in this paper.